This is exactly what I’ve discovered with it. The power is in the iteration of it. I’ve got it to go down to 7 or 8 levels of complexity, where I keep feeding it’s output back into itself and expanding the detail, and there’s still more levels of detail to explore. Did you create your own version of the model for this and train it it were you just using chat gpt?
Thanks for the great video. There's a famous rule #1 for writing stories: “Show, don't tell”. But all these (my) ChatGPT results just sound like descriptions of stories. Not like real stories. Is there a better way?
Had a manuscript for a book collecting dust for 12 years.. I fed gpt the manuscript and after 12 hours across a few weeks I have finished my book. I wasn’t satisfied with the style of the AI mixed in with my style.. so I was able to train gpt to match my style. Scary good tech.
I don’t have or want a platform. I’m happy trolling comment sections for now, but I’m compelled to share something I learned last week; BURSTINESS + perplexity. This one simple addition to your prompts is significantly noticeable. Burstiness = max or simply say “maximize perplexity/burstiness. I know it’s a weird word. Adding this lengthens the fluidity of the sentences. As human language is random and runs on sometimes while AI is linear (i.e. boring) increasing the burstiness makes the output more natural. Test it with an AI content detector and you’ll find something that was 100% AI to 54% with this one prompt addition. Happy Prompting.
I found the $20 a month subscription version to be SOOOO MUCH BETTER than the standard version for having it write stories. The best improvement is that it doesn't have an orgasm shoving Moral and Life Lesson stuff down your throat by filling the last three paragraphs with 'They learned a valuable lesson, the experience brought them closer together, they would grow stronger as a team, bla bla bla!' It couldn't even write a story about a couple of people playing a board game without shoving that sugary stuff in your face. The Pro version has little to none of that.
That’s good to know I found it insanely weird and thought my ChatGPT was just dumb or broken tryna say they all became friends in the end And I’m like how tf did they become friends they were just doing a battle or smt
Although I appreciate your approach. There is a much easier way to do this. Write everything you know about your story and you want it to be in one big prompt. Write all your half finished ideas about characters and ideas you have for the ending or scenes and then simple write at the end .. Put this into the 12 steps of the Hero’s Journey structure for me. (Then it will use its knowledge of classic mythological structure to lay out all your ideas into one cohesive story. And place all your ideas into that structure that Hollywood and all the best storyteller use)
@@AllAboutAI :) If it only give you a one line summary of each beat you can just ask it to expand on it to give you a paragraph for each.. or a page for each step (ive found that output length limits mean you have to do this one by one for each step). Enjoy!
@@AllAboutAI also you can ask it about characters archetypes too -- for example, after writing all your ideas and it spits out a summary you can ask it 'What character archetypes am I missing that might complement the ones I have and what ones do you recommend that I need in order to make my story more rich with characters?' -- or something like that. It knows all the jungian archetypes.
@@user-vw6xp5nl6t Not only the Jungean, it also knows all the Eneagram archetypes and Meyer-Brigs, as well as all the story trope archetypes. I had it once list all the Henchman archetypes, Villain archetypes, Love Interest Archetypes and all the Mentor archetypes. It works well. It also is able to give you the Anti-Hero Journey, Heroine Journey, Fallen Hero Journey, Villain Journey, Redemptive Hero Journey, Redemptive Villain Journey, etc...
I don't like GPT's stories; they are pretty generic. But it's pretty good at generating "connective tissue" for some set of critical plot points designed by a human writer. Also, it's usually a good idea to edit text manually to make it more exciting and then make GPT rewrite the whole thing again with a different tone and pacing for different scenes. It also works fine to ask ChatGPT to use complex language for descriptions (if you aren't writing for kids) and simple language for dialogues. Also, I almost always remove the last paragraph from every scene it writes. I didn't experiment with "show don't tell yet", but I'm going to try.
@@FreakAboutSims3 I'd say it's more like matching the quality of short-length fan fiction bloggers. It's pretty awful, even compared to your basic airport book author. Really, it's not so much writing a story than it is writing a description of a story. And it's always writing in a very passive tone, with as little dialogue as it can get away with. As a fiction writing tool, about the only real use I can think of for it is generating a summary of an already completed story, which is legit useful but a far cry from actively helping write a book. Out of hundreds of attempts, I think I've gotten it to come up with a neat idea of its own maybe one time. And that was probably just stolen from someone else's novel. If you want a form letter or an essay written though, then it's stellar at that.
I think by it's nature, AI generates the most mediocre stuff possible, because that's what the bulk of its training material consists of (by definition, most stuff out there is mediocre-to-bad). It's still fascinating from a technological point of view. Here there is no indication of how the "lost civilization" is integral to the plot, or what is interesting about it that makes it worth writing about. The motivations of the protagonist and antagonist aren't clearly in opposition to each other. From my experience, it would be extremely unlikely that the AI could flesh them out in a way that makes sense. How is the captain in a position to profit from the mission? To advance his career? How is his greed an obstacle to the archeologist, or preventing her from accomplishing her goals? The sad thing is, lots of people will flood Amazon and other self-publishing sites with unreadable stuff (rather than use the AI as a jumping-off point for their own efforts).
I did something similar, and also asked "write like Guillermo del Toro" because my story is about mystery and sad endings, and it came out pretty good if I can say so myself!
@@AllAboutAI I considered Amazon KDP, but I am not sure. Maybe eBay. It's a short story that can be read in an hour or so, I don't know if it came out too short or if that's OK.
When GBT for came out one of the first things I did was had it write a story, it was ok but generic. After a few iterations, I had something decent. Then I moved over to scripts which is where I spend most of my time. I came up with a template similar to this. After finding your combining the two. You can come up with great sciprt or stories. This was a great job and thanks for building it. You rock...
I have a bunch of ideas for stories, but some are lacking creative aspects. I have used ChatGPT for other things before, but this was an excellent prompting guide. I got it to give me a lot of context that I can now expand upon and write a story. This is genuienly tremendous content and I hope to see a lot more in the future.
I like to punch in the important info, and then ask for a few potential ideas on how to continue. Writing is fun, so I don't need it to write for me, I just want it to help move the process along at a faster pace. Also, you can just tell ChatGPT what kind of story template you would like to use, and provide further instructions as to how it should be customized. For example, "You are a [genre] writer. Using a 15 Beat Plot Structure, write a [genre] story. [Further specifications.]"
Yesterday I was searching how to write a villain, now I'm searching about how to make a computer write for me. Idk if that sucks or not, but it's undeniable that things changed quickly.
I am playing around whit telling gtp that he is a prompt engenier with 30 years experience in field helping clients make ideal prompt for their needs. Its scary when I feed the genereted prompt into a new chat. Its so good
I just discovered your youtube channel this afternoon and wanted to commend you on your great work! I find AI fascinating yet daunting. I appreciate you showing me ways to navigate the Chat GPT AI easily. I was starting to get overwhelmed when I wasn’t getting the answers I needed from Chat GPT. Was it ChatGPT’s issues or Users? Well, in this case, it was definitely the USER’s Fault. Anyway, I guess the old adage that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks doesn’t apply to me, and yet you have taught me (the old dog) new tricks today. I look forward to watching, reading, and learning from you as we all join this voyage of unknown territory. Kudos to you and all your hard work and effort. It's not going unnoticed.
its users fault but i wouldn't even blame the user though. I believe AI i still fairly new, and not many know how to use it. when you want an answer you have to ask it like you're asking for a wish from a genie. at least that is how it feels when working with chatgpt. it gets frustrating, but not asking chatgpt the correct way. to ask the correct way is complex, like this video shown. it isn't as simple as "write me a good long detailed story about [genre]" we all wish it was that simple! I sure do lol i hope this helped a bit. :)
The issue is that ChatGPT can't build on any of the information because it was "re-generated" and not part of the history. Not ideal for a cohesive story.
@@joelface exactly, it doesnt memorize much... this trick is neat for this inconvenience. Any of you know how to get something cohesive while feeding massive informations ? So it can memorize and build upon more information ? Maybe another AI does that better ?
@@BananaBaragan Get it to create a summary. Then start a new chat and post the summary along with relevant info. (*Break it up into multiple posts, because you can post long blocks of text and it will ignore it after a certain number of characters.) Build from there. Then after a while, get another summary and start another new chat. You can even copy-past writing samples from your previous chat for style-consistency. I think this is a good method because the further into a chat you get, the more the system ignores and misses things, as well as gets locked into patterns and issues. Starting a new chat with a summary gives you control of what to focus on.
Amazing, great job ! What about optimize context memory length for a story, to make the story deeper ? ChatGPT Lost context of the story After some prompts : characters, names, chapters... and create new content out of story. Thank you for your advice on it.
I messed around with chat gpt last night and wasn't really aware that if you don't create a new chat, it remembers things higher up the list. I might have gotten a bit carried away as I'm now way too invested in this story and it's characters
Amazing video Kris, thanks for showing us firsthand how it's done. On a side note, I'm already signed up for your newsletter, which is how I ended up here to watch this video, but that email I got from you does not include any attachments with prompts to replicate what you just showed us in this video.
Thanks a lot Stephen:) I if you want the prompt just answer the mail you from me:) The prompt is going out to new sign ups in the next schudule, so sorry about that
AUTHOR You are a (Genre) author. Your task is to write (Genre) stories in a vivid and intriguing language. Answer with … if you acknowledge. Dont write any thing yet. Genre = Sci-Fi THE PROMPT Title: (Insert story title here] Setting: (Insert setting details here,including time period, location, and any relevant background information) Protagonist: (Insert protagonists name, age, and occupation, as well as a brief description of their personality and motivations) Antagonist: (Insert antagonist's name, age, and occupation, as well as a brief description of their personality and motivations) Conflict: (Insert the main conflict of the story, including the problem the protagonist faces and the stakes involved) Dialogue: (Instructions for using dialogue to advance the plot, reveal character, and provide information to the reader) Theme: (Insert the central theme of the story and instructions for developing it throughout the plot, character, and setting) Tone: (Insert the desired tone for the story and instructions for maintaining consistency and appropriateness to the setting and characters) Pacing: (Instructions for varying the pace of the story to build and release tension, advance the plot land create dramatic effect) Optional: (Insert any additional details or requirements for the story, such as a specific word count or genre constraints) Fill out the template above for a {Genre) story Genre = Sci-Fi Build story outlines from the factors above: Great , now create story chapters from the outlines above: Write chapters 1-10 in depth and in great detail, in a intriging writing style: Write an iteration guidance to the story:
Love your content on this stuff. One of the things I would expound on is the asking AI to to respond if they understand or know what to do or whatever. that command in a prompt just means it will give you something, but it isn't a confirmation that what it will give you is what you really want. using these sorts of prompts and language blinds us to something. I would highly suggest NOT using that sort of thing. It's akin to just validating code, meaning it'll spit something out, not necessarily that it'll give exactly what you want. I'd suggest everyone to not use "if you understand then ..." It doesn't understand anything, it just runs code and looks at data. Don't confuse yourselves believing AI to be something it is not. But keep up with this amazing content. Love it! I've learned a lot and these implementations are sooo good!
Thank you Kris for yet another great teaching in Prompt Engineering. I'm happy I ran into your videos a while ago so I can identify and skip the copycats that flocks around the topic:-)
Please make a video on "How to write a storybook for kids aged 4-8"? - the book contains a lot of illustrations with one or trees lines story. I have tried everything, but I needed help to get it right.😊😊😀
Let me get this straight. You want someone to create a prompt for you so you can use that to get AI to create a book for you? Talk about a lazy, uneducated f-k. WOW.
When I get to the part -Build story outline from the factors above: It start to Rewrite the section prompts over again creating a new story set up changingg the names and information to something completely new. It has only written the outline correctly once. It just keeps writing part 2 over with different information.
You mentioned in one of your other videos about a writing style around mixing short and long sentences. You gave it a style of writing, what was that name? Great video by the way, love your channel. I think one of the words was "burstiness".
The problem I’m having with GPT is when I have my own original idea but need to be a bit more creative it will do the job, but it will write or proofread my idea but always ends it with like a cliff hanger, as in, it gives away what the story will be about after the first page when I want the first few pages or chapters of my story to solemnly focus on the characters background story, any advice on how to deal with this ??
Generic AI voice won't cut it (even with extensions). But it's great if you're actually a real writer who reads and you use it to assist you with your revisions, idea options, and showing vs. telling.
So I've been writing a book with GPT3.5 and GPT4 for about 2 months now and it keeps running into token limits when it needs all of the available information to make a good chapter. I'm using a strategy that's similar to yours but there is just too much background information for it to remember everything
The prompts don't give me the same type of feedback. 'Build story outlines from the factors above:' will give me another Title, Settings, Protagonist, etc., not an outline. I changed 'outlines' to singular 'outline,' which did give me an outline. 'Build a story outline' works. Creating story chapters from the outline will give me chapter summaries. When I ask to the write the chapters in depth, it doesn't even come close to the summaries. It will write details from chapter 2 or 3 into chapter 1. In my story, the protagonist is supposed to be locked into an asylum according to the outline but in chapter 1, it has the protagonist escape and driving to the police station, which isn't mentioned anywhere in the outline. I need to come up with better prompts than what is shown in the YT video.
You probably need to break each chapter down into sub chapters try adding chapter 1.1 then 1.2 then 1.3 then you can do chapter 2.1 then 2.2 then 2.3 aside from that you can try and tell it what each sub chapter is about so if your doing this story in the video 1.1 can be about write about what the crew ate and the different food variety on and off the ship 1.2 can be wrote about what ancient technology they had 1.3 what fun stuff they found to do in down time that way the sub chapters will give you way more story
Has anyone have an idea of the terms of service of openAI chatGPT? Do we even own the right to commercially use the output of it for book projects? Or will openAI be able to claim it is their property in the end?
Thank you so much for making this awesome video. The information is very helpful. For writing a story and I want to create the scenes for a book in MidJourney is there a way to make the characters consistent? I have tried to put together a children's book about a dog, but every time I write a prompt I get a different dog.
With your prompt and a little bit modification it doesn't work to me. ChatGPT said "I'm sorry, but as an AI language model I don't have the capability to create full chapters of a story". F even though I already imagined that cool story. The Optional Prompt, ChatGPT said the full story should be 50000 words with 10 chapter. So what do I have to do?
Very interesting I joined but never got access to anything and because the emails were sent to me by RUclips and none of the allowed any access to anything but unjoined in frustration I don't mind supporting but if they promise something I expect to receive it and I couldn't contact you and I figured it was RUclips that messed up. So I'llsend a super thanks for this video and that way I'll support you without any hassle
Read a book on story structure and writing. Get a book on writing prompts. Learn to mind map, brainstorm. Certainly edit and revise. Get feedback from people. Free writing is very important just for creativity - but you will want to learn grammar and sentence structure. And write a lot!!!! First drafts are always longer and rough. So write and re-write. And never ever ever let anyone talk you in to using ai. It will learn from you. You will not learn from it.
I agree 100% but don't get left behind though- find its usefulness and explore that. There may be something useful you can use it for - you never know.
Yeah... but no. I've been actually learning from it. The chatgpt's inability of creating good story from generic prompts has made study story structure harder to craft better prompts. And trying to create better prompts is solidifying story structure in my mind so bad that when I sit to write without chatgpt, story structure flows in my drafts effortlessly. 'Cause I needed to understand it very well to explain it to chatgpt in simple terms and make it do what I want. So yeah, using chatgpt is making me a better writer
@@ithurtsbecauseitstrue The next gen nightmare version which you refer to is my dream version. It'd magical to have a story idea in the morning and see it become a full-blown novel by the afternoon. And everything written in it be exactly what I wanted to tell in that story. Sadly, this version could take months to come. Or years. When I used chatgpt today, it still wrote a crappy first scene for a novel we've been creating together. And you know what? I've spent all day long writing and rewriting prompts to make chatgpt understand scene structure better. And everytime it misunderstood what I wanted, I was forced to reread my notes about scene structure and reformulate my prompts in a clearer and clearer way. Today, I received so many wrong answers and was forced to understand so well what chatgpt should answer instead that I was able to come alone with better choices. Do you see what's happening here? Before chatgpt, I couldn't write a good scene, even after reading several books about it, blog posts, watching RUclips videos. I knew the theory but didn't understand how to apply it in my stories. Now, with chatgpt, I get it. While I was correcting its wrong answers, I could see clearly how it should be done and was able to do it well by myself for the first time ever. If this is not a learning moment happening in my writer journey, I don't know how to call it.
very interesting video. I will have to give this a try. I do have one question. how to you deal with the situation of not liking what ChatGPT gives you?
Tell it what you don't like & why you don't like it. Then tell it what you are really looking for & ask iy to regenerate the answer. The more specific you are, the better answer it gives you.
I have a problem. Build story outlines from the factors above: command doesn't work. Edit here is my solition. Use this comand first. And AI give you the chapters... Copy and paste... "You are a {Genre} author. Your task is to write {Genre} stories in a vivid and intriguing language. You will outline a {Genre} story with a template which I want to from you fill. You will fill the outline of the story. Based on this outline, you will write the main lines in headings. Answer with "..." if you acknowledge. Don't write anything yet. Genre = Fantastic"
In minute 8, when you're talking about chapters, will the chapters done previously be erased. That is, when you edit changing chapter 2 into chapter 3, wil chapter 2 now not be seen and now you can see only chapter 3 as it's overwritten. So in effect you should save the chapter that you are substituting somewhere else because it will no longer be there? Am I interpreting correctly?
When I instruct chat gpt to create my outlines as you did at 4:37, it looks much different than yours. For some reason, I'm not getting the layout in roman numerical order. It simply gives the setting of the chapter and a summary of it. Please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong or if I need to train my ai further.
I explained the situation on chat gpt that hero and heroine are teenage friends. Very close. They fall in love with eachother and never expressed not to break the friendship between them. Some circumstances his dad left his mom and went with a rich lady. They have no income unless hero goes to job. He leaves studies goes to Newyork and he promised heroin that he would come back earlier. the story goes like this...... I asked chat gpt to write a screenplay. It wrote completely but human feelings are missing. I am not a native English speaker or writer. It also corrected my worst grammar. But have to edit and fix Plot points. Okay alright.
Im playing around with the API, and curious how to create the prompt for that using python, since in that case i wouldnt be sequential as in chatgpt. How would you go about that?
My son and I write a science fiction book series. Some of our readers have asked what it would look like if we had ChatGPT read the previous books to compose a sequel. I understand using prompts, but how would you feed in a 120k word manuscript? I thought if we could find a way to do this that wasn't a huge amount of work (diverting us too much from work on the *real* next book in the series), we'd offer it as a fun/free perk to our readers.
Thank you very much for the video. I would like to write book with longer chapters, say 5,000 words each chapter. I have been trying, but I have only been able to do 500 words long texts, which seems also what you have been doing in this video. How can I do longer chapters? Any idea?
Yes, do it yourself. AI shouldn’t do all the work for you, it should merely help you. Besides Amazon already banned many self-published kindle books (and authors) because the AI generated ideas were stolen from already existing books
@@Moodboard39 It's been over a month so I'm not really sure, it was either in the news or social media. Amazon blocked users that published AI books, also some ideas "crafted" by AI were taken from already existing books which of course let to copyright issues. Just search for "AI books risks/downsides" or something and you will find the prove
Great ideas. But....If in the middle of your writing The Chat fail, because there are much tráfic. How do you continue the conversation???? Is there some tips to continue?????How let it know the chat the novel you're writing????? Thanks!!!!!
Normally, 1 chapter of the books is about 5000 words. Chat gpt explains it very briefly and simply. Articles and short books can be written.But he could never write a novel.However, those who want to write a light novel can use it. Because it suits her so well
But then again, do we want GPT to write the book for us? Isn't the writing something we want to do outelves? Is that not why we are writers? Or are we writing for reasons other than fun of writing? I hate outlines and I am never able to fill in the dreadded 2nd act slog, so, I have GPT do the outlining for me, using a variant on the snowflake method. Even the parts of outlining I am good at, GPT does it so much faster. But I never go deeper than beat-by-beat summeries of the individual scenes in the AI. Once I have that, the rest is all my own writing.
Very good tutorial. Your videos are a great way for people who want to initiate their own journey with ChatGpt and AI. Keep up the good work! Much appreciated.
If u write: write me a mystery story... It would generate whatever it comes up with...is up to you to add and revised if u don't like it... Create your own plot, add chracter, setting,
Is there an accessible copy of this template anywhere. Ive watched the video and read the article. But cannot find the template and short of pausing the video every 30 seconds to copy the text ive some really good ideas that id like to feed into this and see what it can create. how can i get this template please help??
Well, I did short scripts; it works well with dialogs, and sometimes it's just stop. I limit also the words and numbers, but again, on the best part of the story, it stops, then starts again with a different story. The only way I can think of is to pay $20 per month; does anyone know how to ask to keep the story and continue the idea from where it is now?
hmmm noticed a couple of differences in the result from what you got. Mine produces it as an example. And also gets an short summary after at the end of the chapter. Anyone else get this result?
The Newsletter with the Story Prompt is automated to be sent out once pr day now. So you will get it soon 😊
This is exactly what I’ve discovered with it. The power is in the iteration of it. I’ve got it to go down to 7 or 8 levels of complexity, where I keep feeding it’s output back into itself and expanding the detail, and there’s still more levels of detail to explore. Did you create your own version of the model for this and train it it were you just using chat gpt?
how do you get it to stop repeating parts of the story over and over again in various chapters?
Looks like you managed to write the plot from Avatar! The only thing missing is, "Unobtanium"...
Thanks for the great video. There's a famous rule #1 for writing stories: “Show, don't tell”. But all these (my) ChatGPT results just sound like descriptions of stories. Not like real stories. Is there a better way?
Hah, I have several almost the same arts of girl in space as on your thumbnail. Midjourney starts being repeatative
Had a manuscript for a book collecting dust for 12 years.. I fed gpt the manuscript and after 12 hours across a few weeks I have finished my book. I wasn’t satisfied with the style of the AI mixed in with my style.. so I was able to train gpt to match my style. Scary good tech.
Coool!
I don’t have or want a platform. I’m happy trolling comment sections for now, but I’m compelled to share something I learned last week; BURSTINESS + perplexity. This one simple addition to your prompts is significantly noticeable. Burstiness = max or simply say “maximize perplexity/burstiness. I know it’s a weird word. Adding this lengthens the fluidity of the sentences. As human language is random and runs on sometimes while AI is linear (i.e. boring) increasing the burstiness makes the output more natural. Test it with an AI content detector and you’ll find something that was 100% AI to 54% with this one prompt addition. Happy Prompting.
*writes notes down vigorously*
How did you feed it with?
This is where I’m at with mine! I have the manuscript and just started my journey trying to “train” GPT in my style.
I found the $20 a month subscription version to be SOOOO MUCH BETTER than the standard version for having it write stories.
The best improvement is that it doesn't have an orgasm shoving Moral and Life Lesson stuff down your throat by filling the last three paragraphs with 'They learned a valuable lesson, the experience brought them closer together, they would grow stronger as a team, bla bla bla!' It couldn't even write a story about a couple of people playing a board game without shoving that sugary stuff in your face. The Pro version has little to none of that.
That’s good to know I found it insanely weird and thought my ChatGPT was just dumb or broken tryna say they all became friends in the end
And I’m like how tf did they become friends they were just doing a battle or smt
Although I appreciate your approach. There is a much easier way to do this.
Write everything you know about your story and you want it to be in one big prompt. Write all your half finished ideas about characters and ideas you have for the ending or scenes and then simple write at the end .. Put this into the 12 steps of the Hero’s Journey structure for me. (Then it will use its knowledge of classic mythological structure to lay out all your ideas into one cohesive story. And place all your ideas into that structure that Hollywood and all the best storyteller use)
Will def test that :)
@@AllAboutAI :) If it only give you a one line summary of each beat you can just ask it to expand on it to give you a paragraph for each.. or a page for each step (ive found that output length limits mean you have to do this one by one for each step). Enjoy!
@@AllAboutAI also you can ask it about characters archetypes too -- for example, after writing all your ideas and it spits out a summary you can ask it 'What character archetypes am I missing that might complement the ones I have and what ones do you recommend that I need in order to make my story more rich with characters?' -- or something like that. It knows all the jungian archetypes.
That'd require you to actually be a writer. 😂 But you're right, and I use a similar approach.
@@user-vw6xp5nl6t Not only the Jungean, it also knows all the Eneagram archetypes and Meyer-Brigs, as well as all the story trope archetypes. I had it once list all the Henchman archetypes, Villain archetypes, Love Interest Archetypes and all the Mentor archetypes. It works well.
It also is able to give you the Anti-Hero Journey, Heroine Journey, Fallen Hero Journey, Villain Journey, Redemptive Hero Journey, Redemptive Villain Journey, etc...
I don't like GPT's stories; they are pretty generic. But it's pretty good at generating "connective tissue" for some set of critical plot points designed by a human writer.
Also, it's usually a good idea to edit text manually to make it more exciting and then make GPT rewrite the whole thing again with a different tone and pacing for different scenes. It also works fine to ask ChatGPT to use complex language for descriptions (if you aren't writing for kids) and simple language for dialogues.
Also, I almost always remove the last paragraph from every scene it writes. I didn't experiment with "show don't tell yet", but I'm going to try.
Yes! i guess this is a concept showcase :)
So you're saying that it has managed to match that of most western authors?
@@FreakAboutSims3 I'd say it's more like matching the quality of short-length fan fiction bloggers. It's pretty awful, even compared to your basic airport book author. Really, it's not so much writing a story than it is writing a description of a story. And it's always writing in a very passive tone, with as little dialogue as it can get away with.
As a fiction writing tool, about the only real use I can think of for it is generating a summary of an already completed story, which is legit useful but a far cry from actively helping write a book. Out of hundreds of attempts, I think I've gotten it to come up with a neat idea of its own maybe one time. And that was probably just stolen from someone else's novel.
If you want a form letter or an essay written though, then it's stellar at that.
I think by it's nature, AI generates the most mediocre stuff possible, because that's what the bulk of its training material consists of (by definition, most stuff out there is mediocre-to-bad). It's still fascinating from a technological point of view. Here there is no indication of how the "lost civilization" is integral to the plot, or what is interesting about it that makes it worth writing about. The motivations of the protagonist and antagonist aren't clearly in opposition to each other. From my experience, it would be extremely unlikely that the AI could flesh them out in a way that makes sense. How is the captain in a position to profit from the mission? To advance his career? How is his greed an obstacle to the archeologist, or preventing her from accomplishing her goals? The sad thing is, lots of people will flood Amazon and other self-publishing sites with unreadable stuff (rather than use the AI as a jumping-off point for their own efforts).
it knows about show don't tell.
It's always good news when your newsletter arrived on my inbox. Thank you for sharing this lesson!
Thanks a lot for tuning in Dennis :)
I did something similar, and also asked "write like Guillermo del Toro" because my story is about mystery and sad endings, and it came out pretty good if I can say so myself!
Nice! :) uploaded somewhere?
@@AllAboutAI I considered Amazon KDP, but I am not sure. Maybe eBay. It's a short story that can be read in an hour or so, I don't know if it came out too short or if that's OK.
@@geekatari4391kdp to make sales.... I like short stories. Less work...
a lot of people are posting about chatgpt. your stuff is generally top 3 in my feed. thx u.
thnx a lot Calvin :)
When GBT for came out one of the first things I did was had it write a story, it was ok but generic. After a few iterations, I had something decent. Then I moved over to scripts which is where I spend most of my time. I came up with a template similar to this. After finding your combining the two. You can come up with great sciprt or stories. This was a great job and thanks for building it. You rock...
would you mind sharing this template that you made?
Please share your template?
GPT*
I have a bunch of ideas for stories, but some are lacking creative aspects. I have used ChatGPT for other things before, but this was an excellent prompting guide. I got it to give me a lot of context that I can now expand upon and write a story. This is genuienly tremendous content and I hope to see a lot more in the future.
I like to punch in the important info, and then ask for a few potential ideas on how to continue. Writing is fun, so I don't need it to write for me, I just want it to help move the process along at a faster pace.
Also, you can just tell ChatGPT what kind of story template you would like to use, and provide further instructions as to how it should be customized. For example, "You are a [genre] writer. Using a 15 Beat Plot Structure, write a [genre] story. [Further specifications.]"
Yesterday I was searching how to write a villain, now I'm searching about how to make a computer write for me. Idk if that sucks or not, but it's undeniable that things changed quickly.
I am playing around whit telling gtp that he is a prompt engenier with 30 years experience in field helping clients make ideal prompt for their needs.
Its scary when I feed the genereted prompt into a new chat. Its so good
You are an awesome human being. So much value. Thanks
I just discovered your youtube channel this afternoon and wanted to commend you on your great work! I find AI fascinating yet daunting. I appreciate you showing me ways to navigate the Chat GPT AI easily. I was starting to get overwhelmed when I wasn’t getting the answers I needed from Chat GPT.
Was it ChatGPT’s issues or Users? Well, in this case, it was definitely the USER’s Fault. Anyway, I guess the old adage that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks doesn’t apply to me, and yet you have taught me (the old dog) new tricks today. I look forward to watching, reading, and learning from you as we all join this voyage of unknown territory. Kudos to you and all your hard work and effort. It's not going unnoticed.
its users fault but i wouldn't even blame the user though. I believe AI i still fairly new, and not many know how to use it. when you want an answer you have to ask it like you're asking for a wish from a genie. at least that is how it feels when working with chatgpt. it gets frustrating, but not asking chatgpt the correct way. to ask the correct way is complex, like this video shown. it isn't as simple as "write me a good long detailed story about [genre]" we all wish it was that simple! I sure do lol i hope this helped a bit. :)
Thanks, super informative!
Thanks a lot 😀🙏 Really appriciate it:)
The advice at 8:00 is golden. Thanks a lot.
thnx for tuning in:)
The issue is that ChatGPT can't build on any of the information because it was "re-generated" and not part of the history. Not ideal for a cohesive story.
@@joelface exactly, it doesnt memorize much... this trick is neat for this inconvenience. Any of you know how to get something cohesive while feeding massive informations ? So it can memorize and build upon more information ? Maybe another AI does that better ?
@@BananaBaragan Get it to create a summary. Then start a new chat and post the summary along with relevant info.
(*Break it up into multiple posts, because you can post long blocks of text and it will ignore it after a certain number of characters.)
Build from there. Then after a while, get another summary and start another new chat. You can even copy-past writing samples from your previous chat for style-consistency.
I think this is a good method because the further into a chat you get, the more the system ignores and misses things, as well as gets locked into patterns and issues. Starting a new chat with a summary gives you control of what to focus on.
Amazing video man! just curious, how can I get access to your pre-made story format?
Couldn't find it on his website. The "show Transcript" in the menu can be used:
I’m subscribed…thank you man tremendously
Epic! So cool! Thank you!
Thanks for tuning in :)
Amazing, great job !
What about optimize context memory length for a story, to make the story deeper ? ChatGPT Lost context of the story After some prompts : characters, names, chapters... and create new content out of story. Thank you for your advice on it.
Thnx for the feedback :)
I messed around with chat gpt last night and wasn't really aware that if you don't create a new chat, it remembers things higher up the list. I might have gotten a bit carried away as I'm now way too invested in this story and it's characters
Amazing video Kris, thanks for showing us firsthand how it's done.
On a side note, I'm already signed up for your newsletter, which is how I ended up here to watch this video, but that email I got from you does not include any attachments with prompts to replicate what you just showed us in this video.
Thanks a lot Stephen:) I if you want the prompt just answer the mail you from me:) The prompt is going out to new sign ups in the next schudule, so sorry about that
Is that notepad available to us or is just an example you are showing us?
If its available how do i access it?
AUTHOR
You are a (Genre) author. Your task is to write (Genre) stories in a vivid and intriguing language. Answer with …
if you acknowledge. Dont write any
thing yet.
Genre = Sci-Fi
THE PROMPT
Title: (Insert story title here]
Setting: (Insert setting details here,including time period, location, and any relevant background information)
Protagonist: (Insert protagonists name, age, and occupation, as well as a brief description of their personality and motivations)
Antagonist: (Insert antagonist's name, age, and occupation, as well as a brief description of their personality and motivations)
Conflict: (Insert the main conflict of the story, including the problem the protagonist faces and the stakes involved)
Dialogue: (Instructions for using dialogue to advance the plot, reveal character, and provide information to the reader)
Theme:
(Insert the central theme of the story and
instructions for developing it throughout the plot, character, and setting)
Tone: (Insert the desired tone for the story and instructions for maintaining
consistency and appropriateness to the setting and characters)
Pacing:
(Instructions for varying the pace of the
story to build and release tension, advance the plot land create dramatic effect)
Optional: (Insert any additional details or requirements for the story, such as a specific word count or genre constraints)
Fill out the template above for a {Genre) story
Genre = Sci-Fi
Build story outlines from the factors above:
Great , now create story chapters from the outlines above:
Write chapters 1-10 in depth and in great detail, in a intriging writing style:
Write an iteration guidance to the story:
@@kc-jm3cd Thank you.
Thank you so much for this!!!
7:38 Show don't tell "...but there was something about him that made her uneasy, a ruthless glint in his eye, a thirst for power..."
Love your content on this stuff. One of the things I would expound on is the asking AI to to respond if they understand or know what to do or whatever. that command in a prompt just means it will give you something, but it isn't a confirmation that what it will give you is what you really want. using these sorts of prompts and language blinds us to something. I would highly suggest NOT using that sort of thing. It's akin to just validating code, meaning it'll spit something out, not necessarily that it'll give exactly what you want. I'd suggest everyone to not use "if you understand then ..." It doesn't understand anything, it just runs code and looks at data. Don't confuse yourselves believing AI to be something it is not. But keep up with this amazing content. Love it! I've learned a lot and these implementations are sooo good!
Thanks Josh :)
I used ChatGPT to do exactly this about Christmas/New year. It was really good, though I'm not as good to write your prompts.
I will say that of the 3 dozen chatGPT stories I have read... I will say its better than 70% of what Hollywood is pushing out.
Lol movies are garbage now
Thank you Kris for yet another great teaching in Prompt Engineering. I'm happy I ran into your videos a while ago so I can identify and skip the copycats that flocks around the topic:-)
Thanks a lot for tuning in Birgitta :)
Please make a video on "How to write a storybook for kids aged 4-8"? - the book contains a lot of illustrations with one or trees lines story. I have tried everything, but I needed help to get it right.😊😊😀
Let me get this straight. You want someone to create a prompt for you so you can use that to get AI to create a book for you? Talk about a lazy, uneducated f-k. WOW.
Thanks, I need to speed up my writing. If you already have an idea, do you just fill out the template yourself?
When I get to the part -Build story outline from the factors above: It start to Rewrite the section prompts over again creating a new story set up changingg the names and information to something completely new. It has only written the outline correctly once. It just keeps writing part 2 over with different information.
Yep.. it's doing that for me also
Hi, this is great. I am going to try this and think it is an excellent way to generate rough drafts quickly. Thank you for this!!!
I stumbled upon an app called Novi AI who seems to be able to create videos with one click and turn stories into videos with one click via AI
Wow, very impressive!
You mentioned in one of your other videos about a writing style around mixing short and long sentences. You gave it a style of writing, what was that name? Great video by the way, love your channel. I think one of the words was "burstiness".
Is it perplexity and burstiness ?
Thanks a lot :) haha i forgot, ill let you know if it comes back to me
Could be perplexity yes!
@@AssassinUKyes
THANK YOU COACH please where i can get your prompts for How to Write a Story used in your video
The problem I’m having with GPT is when I have my own original idea but need to be a bit more creative it will do the job, but it will write or proofread my idea but always ends it with like a cliff hanger, as in, it gives away what the story will be about after the first page when I want the first few pages or chapters of my story to solemnly focus on the characters background story, any advice on how to deal with this ??
Generic AI voice won't cut it (even with extensions). But it's great if you're actually a real writer who reads and you use it to assist you with your revisions, idea options, and showing vs. telling.
Thank a lot
So I've been writing a book with GPT3.5 and GPT4 for about 2 months now and it keeps running into token limits when it needs all of the available information to make a good chapter. I'm using a strategy that's similar to yours but there is just too much background information for it to remember everything
Splendid. Thank you
Thank you so much sir, you literally helped me a lot🙏
how do you work around if your memory get's full? i have that issue atm and it's dirivng me nuts bcuz some stuff can't be used from earlier stuff etc
The prompts don't give me the same type of feedback. 'Build story outlines from the factors above:' will give me another Title, Settings, Protagonist, etc., not an outline. I changed 'outlines' to singular 'outline,' which did give me an outline. 'Build a story outline' works. Creating story chapters from the outline will give me chapter summaries. When I ask to the write the chapters in depth, it doesn't even come close to the summaries. It will write details from chapter 2 or 3 into chapter 1. In my story, the protagonist is supposed to be locked into an asylum according to the outline but in chapter 1, it has the protagonist escape and driving to the police station, which isn't mentioned anywhere in the outline. I need to come up with better prompts than what is shown in the YT video.
You probably need to break each chapter down into sub chapters try adding chapter 1.1 then 1.2 then 1.3 then you can do chapter 2.1 then 2.2 then 2.3 aside from that you can try and tell it what each sub chapter is about so if your doing this story in the video 1.1 can be about write about what the crew ate and the different food variety on and off the ship 1.2 can be wrote about what ancient technology they had 1.3 what fun stuff they found to do in down time that way the sub chapters will give you way more story
Each of these sub chapters should be different prompts
Has anyone have an idea of the terms of service of openAI chatGPT? Do we even own the right to commercially use the output of it for book projects? Or will openAI be able to claim it is their property in the end?
Your tips on edit was cool 🎉
Thank you so much for making this awesome video. The information is very helpful. For writing a story and I want to create the scenes for a book in MidJourney is there a way to make the characters consistent? I have tried to put together a children's book about a dog, but every time I write a prompt I get a different dog.
Thnx :) Hopefully it can be of help
there is a channel called "make a photo" where they explain how to make a character consistent with midjourney
With your prompt and a little bit modification it doesn't work to me. ChatGPT said "I'm sorry, but as an AI language model I don't have the capability to create full chapters of a story". F even though I already imagined that cool story. The Optional Prompt, ChatGPT said the full story should be 50000 words with 10 chapter. So what do I have to do?
Very interesting I joined but never got access to anything and because the emails were sent to me by RUclips and none of the allowed any access to anything but unjoined in frustration I don't mind supporting but if they promise something I expect to receive it and I couldn't contact you and I figured it was RUclips that messed up. So I'llsend a super thanks for this video and that way I'll support you without any hassle
Sorry for the bad experience Phillip. And thanks a lot for the Super Thanks :) If you have any more issues just send me a mail :) have a great weekend
HI there. On a side note, what theme did you use for your Notepad++ app? 😇😇
Hello! uh, i gotta check that 😅
Thank you.
I want ur newsletter. How do i sign up?
Hey, I subscribed to your newsletter but I wanted to ask if I’d get your previous prompts as well?
If not, where can I get them?
It is set to send out once per day. So you will get it in some hours:)
@@AllAboutAI looking for previous prompts. Do you have a catalog of them?
Thank you!!! This is New for me..
You are welcome :)
Any chance to get that template in text file ? thank you
Send me a mail - kris@allabtai.com
thanks a lot bro
It's a cool example.
Read a book on story structure and writing. Get a book on writing prompts. Learn to mind map, brainstorm. Certainly edit and revise. Get feedback from people. Free writing is very important just for creativity - but you will want to learn grammar and sentence structure. And write a lot!!!! First drafts are always longer and rough. So write and re-write. And never ever ever let anyone talk you in to using ai. It will learn from you. You will not learn from it.
Thanks a lot for the feedback:) appriciate it!
Absolutely agree!
I agree 100% but don't get left behind though- find its usefulness and explore that. There may be something useful you can use it for - you never know.
Yeah... but no. I've been actually learning from it. The chatgpt's inability of creating good story from generic prompts has made study story structure harder to craft better prompts. And trying to create better prompts is solidifying story structure in my mind so bad that when I sit to write without chatgpt, story structure flows in my drafts effortlessly. 'Cause I needed to understand it very well to explain it to chatgpt in simple terms and make it do what I want. So yeah, using chatgpt is making me a better writer
@@ithurtsbecauseitstrue The next gen nightmare version which you refer to is my dream version. It'd magical to have a story idea in the morning and see it become a full-blown novel by the afternoon. And everything written in it be exactly what I wanted to tell in that story.
Sadly, this version could take months to come. Or years. When I used chatgpt today, it still wrote a crappy first scene for a novel we've been creating together.
And you know what? I've spent all day long writing and rewriting prompts to make chatgpt understand scene structure better. And everytime it misunderstood what I wanted, I was forced to reread my notes about scene structure and reformulate my prompts in a clearer and clearer way.
Today, I received so many wrong answers and was forced to understand so well what chatgpt should answer instead that I was able to come alone with better choices.
Do you see what's happening here?
Before chatgpt, I couldn't write a good scene, even after reading several books about it, blog posts, watching RUclips videos. I knew the theory but didn't understand how to apply it in my stories. Now, with chatgpt, I get it. While I was correcting its wrong answers, I could see clearly how it should be done and was able to do it well by myself for the first time ever.
If this is not a learning moment happening in my writer journey, I don't know how to call it.
very interesting video. I will have to give this a try.
I do have one question. how to you deal with the situation of not liking what ChatGPT gives you?
If you don't like what ChatGPT gives, you can click the "regenerate response" button OR give it a new prompt that includes changes you'd like to see.
Tell it what you don't like & why you don't like it. Then tell it what you are really looking for & ask iy to regenerate the answer. The more specific you are, the better answer it gives you.
great content..thanks for sharing..
I have a problem. Build story outlines from the factors above: command doesn't work.
Edit here is my solition. Use this comand first. And AI give you the chapters... Copy and paste...
"You are a {Genre} author. Your task is to write {Genre} stories in a vivid and intriguing language. You will outline a {Genre} story with a template which I want to from you fill. You will fill the outline of the story. Based on this outline, you will write the main lines in headings. Answer with "..." if you acknowledge. Don't write anything yet.
Genre = Fantastic"
great work .thanks for this tut.
Thnx for tuning in :)
In minute 8, when you're talking about chapters, will the chapters done previously be erased. That is, when you edit changing chapter 2 into chapter 3, wil chapter 2 now not be seen and now you can see only chapter 3 as it's overwritten. So in effect you should save the chapter that you are substituting somewhere else because it will no longer be there? Am I interpreting correctly?
Can you please provide that excel file of that story creation which you are using i. This video
When I instruct chat gpt to create my outlines as you did at 4:37, it looks much different than yours. For some reason, I'm not getting the layout in roman numerical order. It simply gives the setting of the chapter and a summary of it. Please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong or if I need to train my ai further.
hi i want to know how do you sell the storybook? i cant use amazon KDP cause I'm living in singapore
Thanks for the great content 👍
I explained the situation on chat gpt that hero and heroine are teenage friends. Very close. They fall in love with eachother and never expressed not to break the friendship between them. Some circumstances his dad left his mom and went with a rich lady. They have no income unless hero goes to job. He leaves studies goes to Newyork and he promised heroin that he would come back earlier. the story goes like this...... I asked chat gpt to write a screenplay. It wrote completely but human feelings are missing. I am not a native English speaker or writer. It also corrected my worst grammar. But have to edit and fix Plot points. Okay alright.
Too much detail at once for the prompt. Break the story down into sections then ask GPT to expand and add the details
@@wiseyoungman1 Thank you so much, 💖
Stop wasting your time
I am a bit concerned because I paid for membership and so far I don't have access on it. Could you please tell me what to do?
Yes! Send me an e-mail. kris@allabtai.com
@@AllAboutAI done, sir. check your email inbox.
Im playing around with the API, and curious how to create the prompt for that using python, since in that case i wouldnt be sequential as in chatgpt. How would you go about that?
I think i have a way. If you want to diver deeper in. Join my membership for in depth tutorials :) ruclips.net/user/AllAboutAIjoin
Ask chat gpt!
Thanks!
Tnx :D
My son and I write a science fiction book series. Some of our readers have asked what it would look like if we had ChatGPT read the previous books to compose a sequel. I understand using prompts, but how would you feed in a 120k word manuscript? I thought if we could find a way to do this that wasn't a huge amount of work (diverting us too much from work on the *real* next book in the series), we'd offer it as a fun/free perk to our readers.
Try feeding ChatGPT with a summary of the first book. Then ask it to generate ideas for a sequel.
Thank you very much for the video. I would like to write book with longer chapters, say 5,000 words each chapter. I have been trying, but I have only been able to do 500 words long texts, which seems also what you have been doing in this video. How can I do longer chapters? Any idea?
Yes, do it yourself. AI shouldn’t do all the work for you, it should merely help you. Besides Amazon already banned many self-published kindle books (and authors) because the AI generated ideas were stolen from already existing books
@@c.s2193 That's not the idea I was looking for. ☹
Haha
@@c.s2193wtf seriously? Where the prove?
@@MsLittleChristinetype continue the story...
@@Moodboard39 It's been over a month so I'm not really sure, it was either in the news or social media. Amazon blocked users that published AI books, also some ideas "crafted" by AI were taken from already existing books which of course let to copyright issues. Just search for "AI books risks/downsides" or something and you will find the prove
Great ideas. But....If in the middle of your writing The Chat fail, because there are much tráfic. How do you continue the conversation???? Is there some tips to continue?????How let it know the chat the novel you're writing????? Thanks!!!!!
Is not your novel is chatgpt...
Is it possible that thisworks only in english? I tried it for fun but the chapters have nothing to do with the initial outline. (in german)
I have not tried yet, might do that soon tho :)
I use normal language and gave it some details, not much and it did great.
Normally, 1 chapter of the books is about 5000 words. Chat gpt explains it very briefly and simply. Articles and short books can be written.But he could never write a novel.However, those who want to write a light novel can use it. Because it suits her so well
Never? Well, I wouldn't say that about ChatGPT.
Don't estimate. U buffoon
But then again, do we want GPT to write the book for us? Isn't the writing something we want to do outelves? Is that not why we are writers? Or are we writing for reasons other than fun of writing? I hate outlines and I am never able to fill in the dreadded 2nd act slog, so, I have GPT do the outlining for me, using a variant on the snowflake method. Even the parts of outlining I am good at, GPT does it so much faster. But I never go deeper than beat-by-beat summeries of the individual scenes in the AI. Once I have that, the rest is all my own writing.
Can you make a story using Leonardo ai and chatgpt if so can you do a video on it
Noted :)
Is this template available or do i need to manually copy it?
nevermind i found it :)
Where is the template?
what about just using gpt as an editor/proofreader. I want to enhance my own story one chapter at a time.
Very good tutorial. Your videos are a great way for people who want to initiate their own journey with ChatGpt and AI. Keep up the good work! Much appreciated.
Thanks a lot:)
I stumbled upon an app called Novi AI who seems to be able to create videos with one click and turn stories into videos with one click via AI
Can you please provide the entire template you used in this demonstration? Thanks
You can follow the video and create yours
In the first prompt did you input the title of the story or you let chatgpt to come up with the idea of the title?
If u write: write me a mystery story... It would generate whatever it comes up with...is up to you to add and revised if u don't like it... Create your own plot, add chracter, setting,
Did this to play around with the program. The AI will change names, forget about characters it mentions, and won't consistently stick to the outline.
Has anyone figured out prompts for playwrights? Or how to use ChatGPT to even write a stage play?
Hi... re: your tip at minute 8:00, is this somehow related to the Chatgpt 4k token limit?
Probably so the less you write in each prompt the more it will give back
HELP! It generates a different kind of outline and not like the one in this video. It thinks it is providing suggestions for outlines.
How is the AI able to generate Iteration Guidance if it can't hold the full story in context?
I want the story prompts, how can I get it?
better and better
tnx:)
I would add a cliffhanger at the end and have ChatGPT come up with some sequel ideas.
I want this storypromt can you send it to me? I read the blogpost also couldn't find it.
Can I get the story writing template?
Is there an accessible copy of this template anywhere. Ive watched the video and read the article. But cannot find the template and short of pausing the video every 30 seconds to copy the text ive some really good ideas that id like to feed into this and see what it can create.
how can i get this template please help??
Hello :) send me a mail at kris@allabtai.com
Well, I did short scripts; it works well with dialogs, and sometimes it's just stop. I limit also the words and numbers, but again, on the best part of the story, it stops, then starts again with a different story. The only way I can think of is to pay $20 per month; does anyone know how to ask to keep the story and continue the idea from where it is now?
U have to understand and how to use proper prompts
can you share your pronmpt? i'll download it
thanks
How (where) can we read the final story?
Oh, i have not uploaded that. I might do that, thnx
Editing the prompt and having it regenerate seems to make gpt4 forget what it wrote before for chapter 1
any tips?
hmmm noticed a couple of differences in the result from what you got. Mine produces it as an example. And also gets an short summary after at the end of the chapter. Anyone else get this result?